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Lag Ba'Omer: the Holiday of fire. What are we celebrating?
This Wednesday night people all over Israel will gather around huge bonfires all over the country to sing songs, roast marshmallows and...
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My day beyond borders with Thrive in Gush Etzion
My first trip to Israel, through Birthright, ended two weeks before the beginning of my semester at Hebrew University this spring. Upon...
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Israel commemorates victims of the Holocaust
On Thursday morning air-raid sirens will sound all across Israel to commemorate the approximately six million Jews who perished in the...